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| 377517 | 2005-08-02 08:58:00 | Met a guy today who wants to do video editing on his tapes. He's just bought a new HP, 40G drive as far as I can work out.No extra drives.Would he get away with using an external drive on USB? Or would it really be better for him to get another drive installed? Why do I come across these people? I think it was once called a hobby. |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 377518 | 2005-08-02 09:05:00 | Absolutely useless on USB 1 or 2 I used to use an external firewire drive which struggled, but did the job. Nothing will beat another drive, preferably as master on IDE2 Which will also be heaps cheaper than an external setup, a new 200GB can be got for around $140 or a smaller 80GB for around $75 (go for a 200) And double the RAM |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 377519 | 2005-08-02 09:05:00 | Either should work, if he's got USB 2. Forget using USB 1.1 for external hdd's. It'll be too slow. BUT I would get a hdd bigger than 40 gb. Video Editing will eat that up in no time at all. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 377520 | 2005-08-02 20:57:00 | I would debate that, I would suggest USB2.0 could be fine, with a transfer rate of 480kbps remember, compared to USB1.1's 12 :-/ Yes, if its fully uncompressed DV, no way.... But you can get away with it if you're compressing it on-the-fly whilst capturing. When editing/converting, the speed doesnt matter quite so much because you wont be dropping frames. You're right though, an internal is a hundred times better, and 40GB could be less than an hour of uncompressed DV Video. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 377521 | 2005-08-02 23:29:00 | I would debate that, I would suggest USB2.0 could be fine, with a transfer rate of 480kbps remember, compared to USB1.1's 12 :-/ Yes, if its fully uncompressed DV, no way.... But you can get away with it if you're compressing it on-the-fly whilst capturing. When editing/converting, the speed doesnt matter quite so much because you wont be dropping frames. You're right though, an internal is a hundred times better, and 40GB could be less than an hour of uncompressed DV Video. I would debate that. My external drive is both USB2 and firewire capable and I've tried both inertfaces for video editing with it. USB2 just didn't cut the mustard On a P4 2.4, 1.5GB DDR, 128Mb Matrox triple head Pahrelia, USB2 was hopeless Firewire did the job but slowly A new 200GB on IDE2 and it's magic |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 377522 | 2005-08-03 01:31:00 | The manuals say you can use USB . . . and you can in the same way you could download the next version of Windows on a 56kb dialup . Don't even try . . . take it from me, the results suck . Firewire it's gotta be . |
Oggy (5399) | ||
| 377523 | 2005-08-03 02:07:00 | Thanks everyone.Have passed on your comments. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 377524 | 2005-08-03 11:37:00 | Just had an email from him, which I've asked him to resend as I pushed the wrong button in Mailwasher!I think he said it was a 200ghz hard drive. Would it be ok to partition that to use for his video,or is a separate drive better? Faster access etc? | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 377525 | 2005-08-03 11:40:00 | 200GB A totally separate drive is preferable to a partitioned drive |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 377526 | 2005-08-03 22:16:00 | Thanks bartsdadhomer, thought that would be the case. | Neil McC (178) | ||
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